is the religion of Christ and His
Apostles....
This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe

our free constitutions of
government."

(Noah Webster, History of the United States,
1832, public school textbook.)

There are those who will tell us that our founding fathers - the writers
and signers of the Declaration of Independence were not believers in God
and His Son Jesus Christ.

Nonsense! And shame on them for their attempts to diminish these men ~
steeped in their Christian upbringing ~ men who unashamedly confessed
their faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is reported that 52 of the 55 signers of The
Declaration of Independence were deeply committed Christians.
The other three of which believed in the Bible as the divine truth from God, and His personal intervention.

Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States reaffirmed this
truth when he wrote,

"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the
teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith
in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our
country."

Shortly after creating the Declaration of Independence, the
Continental Congress voted to purchase and import some 20,000 copies of
the Holy Bible for the people of this nation.

This is the same congress that formed the American Bible Society some
years later in New York as a
union of 28 local Bible societies in the year 1816; their goal was the
placing of a Bible in every home.

In 1782, the United States Congress voted this resolution: "The congress of
the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all
schools."

Thomas Jefferson wrote on the front of his well -
worn Bible:

"I am a Christian, that is to say a disciple of the doctrines
of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied
to the unity of our Creator and, I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus
also."

Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the American Revolution, is
still remembered for his words, "Give me liberty or give me death." But in
current textbooks the context of these words is deleted. Here is the full
context of what he said:

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation
was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but
on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other
faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here."

Did You Know?

"The U.S. Supreme Court
opens its business with the words "God save the United States and this
honorable court." And need I mention that all the US currency is
emblazoned with "In God We Trust." In the wake of the terrorist attacks on
our nation, Americans are returning to their religious roots and finding
that it can be beneficial to their mental health as they seek healing."
--Congressman Terry Everett

Did You Know?

"At the base of our freedom
is our faith in God and the desire of Americans to live by His will and by
His guidance. As long as this country trusts in God, it will prevail. To
remind all of us of this self-evident truth, it is proper that our
currency should carry these inspiring words, coming down to us through our
history: 'In God We Trust.'" --Representative Bennett (Sponsor of the
legislation in 1955 mandating the inscription of "In God We Trust" on all
coins and paper currency.)

George Washington, the Father of our Nation, was a Christian. In his
farewell speech on September 19, 1796 he said,

"It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all
the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our
religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with
caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without
religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national
morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

Consider these words from his personal
prayer book:

"Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words
and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the lamb and purge
my heart by the Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness
of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor,
I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto
eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world
be filled with the knowledge of thy son, Jesus Christ."

In an address to military leaders John Adams, our second president, who
also served as chairman of the American Bible Society said,

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with
human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution
was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to
the government of any other."

And our first Supreme Court Justice, John
Jay stated that when we select our national leaders, if we are to preserve
our Nation, we must select Christians.

"Providence has given to our
people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the
privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer
Christians for their rulers."

John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams, was the sixth U.S. President and
was also the chairman of the American Bible Society, which he
considered his highest and most important role.

On July 4, 1821, President
Adams said,

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it
connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with
the principles of Christianity."

The First Institution of
Higher Learning in The United States
Harvard University

The Founding Fathers placed a strong priority on higher education with the
Bible as the cornerstone. On September 26, 1642 the guidelines that would
govern Harvard University, our nation's first college, were established.
They read, in part,

"Let every student be plainly instructed, and
earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies
is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3), and
therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound
knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every
one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs
2:3)."

The motto of Harvard was Christi Gloriam (Christ be glorified) and the
college was later dedicated Christo et Ecclesiae (for Christ and for the
Church). The founders of Harvard believed that "All knowledge without
Christ was vain."

William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which was
used for over 100 years in our public schools with over 125 million copies
sold until it was stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the
"Schoolmaster of the Nation."

Listen to these words of Mr. McGuffey:

"The Christian religion is the
religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on character of
God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are
founded the peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has the
author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all
these extracts from the Bible I make no apology."

When you consider the the principles, precepts and laws this great country was founded
on - remember that these God fearing men and the women who supported them gave their all for our
generation and we have a responsibility to honor their sacrifice for God
and country.